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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / July 2008FF3 for Mac a disaster!
I downloaded and installed FF3 since I heard such great things about it. Within hours, I trashed it and reinstalled FF2. The first couple of hours I used FF3, it was fine. But when I tried to put the history list in the side panel, the word "history" appeared at the top of the panel, but my bookmarks remained in the display. I could see my history list from the "History" item in the menu, but couldn't display or search it in the side panel. I posted a note in the FF forum, asking if this was a known bug. Someone suggested I make sure that feature was turned on in FF Preferences. I clicked on FF, Preferences, and nothing happened. No dialog, no message. Nada! I dumped it. I'm back to FF2 until they have another release to fix it so it at least half way works on a Mac. Just wanted to let people know that at least in some cases, FF3 for Mac is not ready for prime time. Or even cable. Of course, YMMV. > I downloaded and installed FF3 since I heard such great things about it. > Within hours, I trashed it and reinstalled FF2. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Just wanted to let people know that at least in some cases, FF3 for Mac > is not ready for prime time. Or even cable. Of course, YMMV. Not had the problem you commented on. Had FF3 since Beta and in general it has been fine. The biggest complaint I have heard is plug-ins not being compatible - but as the beta's have been around for a while, I blame the plugin writers. FF3 is not perfect, but not had any problems wothr reverting back to FF2.  SignatureClive We don't die, we just stop paying taxes. I guess those who don't know what "FF" stands for have nothing to worry about... > I guess those who don't know what "FF" stands for have nothing to worry > about... And here I thought it was a Future Farmers ménage a trois. > I guess those who don't know what "FF" stands for have nothing to worry > about... Firefox. A new major release came out last week. SignatureBarry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** > > I downloaded and installed FF3 since I heard such great things about it. > > Within hours, I trashed it and reinstalled FF2. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > FF3 is not perfect, but not had any problems wothr reverting back to FF2. FF3 also has problems with iWeb galleries and stuff like shadows and other bells and whistles in iWeb. So for those sites you'd better use Safari. FF3 as compared to FF2 also has trouble with German accents on certain sites. It does not show small things, like certain lines on webpages and my own weblog does not fit the parts together well in FF. So FF3 is not really for me. And where are those millions and millions of improvements? I've seen some in the menu bars, but so far only a pain in the neck. > FF3 also has problems with iWeb galleries and stuff like shadows and > other bells and whistles in iWeb. So for those sites you'd better use > Safari. People actually pay for and use iWeb? You have my deepest sympathies. > > FF3 also has problems with iWeb galleries and stuff like shadows and > > other bells and whistles in iWeb. So for those sites you'd better use > > Safari. > > People actually pay for and use iWeb? You have my deepest sympathies. You get it free with your computer. And it's the best webpage maker around, easiest, fastest. No wonder the competition want to torpedo it. > You get it free with your computer. And it's the best webpage maker > around, easiest, fastest. No wonder the competition want to torpedo it. You got what you paid for. > > You get it free with your computer. And it's the best webpage maker > > around, easiest, fastest. No wonder the competition want to torpedo it. > > You got what you paid for. And that is the finest page maker around. And free. Jealous? > And that is the finest page maker around. Snort! That's FUNNY! SignatureWoodworking links and more at http://www.woodenwabbits.com -------------- I kill all messages from Google Groups. See http://improve-usenet.org for details. > And that is the finest page maker around. And free. Jealous? Not even. Tried it...thought it sucked a.s...threw it in the trash where it belongs. > > > You get it free with your computer. And it's the best webpage maker > > > around, easiest, fastest. No wonder the competition want to torpedo it. > > > > You got what you paid for. > > And that is the finest page maker around. And free. Jealous? YMMV (mine only does if I don't keep my engine in tune). Look at Rapidweaver. It's only $59. It's a reasonable website tool that produces multiple sites, much more multi-browser compatible pages (they render very well on PC browsers which some people care about), and allows you to do whole sites using "themes" rather than laying out each site a page at at time. It also allows you to host your site on any web hosting service rather than requiring .MAC to get certain features to work. There are 3rd-party themes and add-ons (forums, easy CMS, e-commerce, specialized layouts and effects) and a thriving developer community. iWeb may be OK for someone who doesn't really want to spend much time getting a single site with few pages up and running and doesn't care what they look like in PC browsers or how fast they load. Sometimes, I'm glad I didn't drink the CoolAid... SignatureDeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee... [I filter all Goggle Groups posts, so any reply may be automatically by ignored] [iWeb] > You get it free with your computer. And it's the best webpage maker > around, easiest, fastest. No wonder the competition want to torpedo it. It may be the easiest. Maybe. But it does some really crappy things. Like pages where when published, it turns all the text into graphics. That's their easy shortcut for making styled text, but it makes for unsearcheable pages with unselectable text and way slower loading than necessary. There are vastly better web page design tools out there, some of them very inexpensive. SignaturePlain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. No HTML in E-Mail! -- http://www.expita.com/nomime.html Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow? http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting > [iWeb] > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > There are vastly better web page design tools out there, > some of them very inexpensive. Okay, butting in here... The complaint you register re turning text into graphics could, quite fairly, be levied against the initial iWeb release (the one that came with iLife06). That was one of many reasons I tried it out and rejected it, although I didn't hesitate to recommend it to people I knew who were, and would remain, absolutely clueless about creating, maintaining, and publishing a website. For them, it was the only solution I could recommend that didn't confuse them. If you don't have any acquaintances or relatives who fall into that category, you probably have a very small family and circle of acquaintances who would ask you for technical advice. However, the iWeb version that is part of iLife08 doesn't suffer from that particular piece of egregious behavior and a number of my other objections were likewise rendered moot. While it is still far from my tool of choice for creating and maintaining "serious" sites, I now consider it adequate enough for a few basic tasks, such as maintaining my blog (which is now dead-simple to publish on .mac and probably on its successor, .me). SignatureSpenser > However, the iWeb version that is part of iLife08 doesn't suffer from > that particular piece of egregious behavior and a number of my other [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > my blog (which is now dead-simple to publish on .mac and probably on > its successor, .me). There's another reason I don't like it. .mac is an overpriced ripoff. > > FF3 also has problems with iWeb galleries and stuff like shadows and > > other bells and whistles in iWeb. So for those sites you'd better use > > Safari. > > People actually pay for and use iWeb? You have my deepest sympathies. You are not the target audience for iWeb. My wife is. SignatureK. Lang may your lum reek. > I downloaded and installed FF3 since I heard such great things about it. > Within hours, I trashed it and reinstalled FF2. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Just wanted to let people know that at least in some cases, FF3 for Mac > is not ready for prime time. Or even cable. Of course, YMMV. I have no complaints with it, but I turn off autocomplete and superfluous toolbars. |
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